Should People Be Allowed To Smoke In Public ?

Should I have to walk through a cloud of toxic, cancer causing second hand smoke and breath it in.? I don't know, how do you feel about you flying an airplane over a busy street and spraying everyone down there with aldicarb, or some other toxic pesticide?

There is no difference.

Smoke if you want to. Kill yourself if you want to. Just do it in private where I do not have to breath in the poisons.

I cannot believe that this is even a serious question.

I've been accused of "fake coughing" before but I guarantee you it is 100% real. Smoke is an asthma trigger of mine (and a lot of asthmatics). Just last week I nearly had an asthma attack from walking past one person smoking outside a building. I try my best to stay away from smokers, as I know I am super sensitive, but I should be able to enjoy a walk outside without an attack.

I don't care if you smoke or don't smoke... just please keep it as much to yourself as possible... there is nothing more irratating than being stopped behind someone smoking at a stop light while they hang their cig out the window and their smoke is coming into my car... My parents smoke and I do not... And I really prefer to not be around people actively smoking because it doesn't matter how upwind I sit from the person it follows me anyway...

People crab about second hand smoke, but I don't see legislation banning exhaust. Try sitting behind a bus...in heavy traffic...then tell me that second hand smoke is bad for you.

Some perfumes and colognes are culprits too (AXE, I hate you. BOD, I hate you).

I'm with ya Miz...diesel smoke is WAY worse than any outside second hand smoke....give me a break people.....sheesh!!:laugh:

Should I have to walk through a cloud of toxic, cancer causing second hand smoke and breath it in.? I don't know, how do you feel about you flying an airplane over a busy street and spraying everyone down there with aldicarb, or some other toxic pesticide?

There is no difference.

Smoke if you want to. Kill yourself if you want to. Just do it in private where I do not have to breath in the poisons.

I cannot believe that this is even a serious question.

I don't think there's anything proving secondhand smoke when you're in the great outdoors. Inside, I fully understand. But just because you can smell secondhand smoke doesn't mean you're getting the things that give smokers cancer. Just because you can smell my fart doesn't mean it's invaded your lungs, just your olfactory senses.

I think people are more pissed about the smell than the smoke itself. Like people have said, exhaust is worse for you and smells worse, in my opinion. Cigarettes don't bug me too bad, but I think cigars and pipes smell amazingly good. Anyway, I think McDonald's restaurants smell like butt, so do most people's cologne or perfume. Just b/c it's suddenly popular to hate smoking doesn't mean we need to outlaw it. I still feel for your right to not have to smell it and I think smokers are, for the most part, following distance laws and such. I also agree that smokers need to be responsible for their butts and not littering. it's every day that I see a driver toss a butt out on the highway.

How should I know? I don't have shrieking kids.

Way to miss the point.

Lighten up, I was just kidding lol As for the smoking thing, I was thinking more along the lines of public places. If you want to smoke outside, knock yourself out, but I stick by what I said. Why should non-smokers have to be subject to your bad habit?

Why should smokers be subject to your good habits? Maybe I don't like breathing fresh air. Maybe when I go outside to smoke I like to breath it all back in because it makes me feel like a wizard.

I smoke, if there is a designated smoking area, I go to it. If the designated smoking area is the only spot in a 3 mile radius that isn't in the shade, I will encroach on non-smoking land. But if anyone walks by, I won't breath, especially kids. If you come and talk to me with your kids, I will put it out because it doesn't matter if you don't care if your kids are around it, I do. I don't smoke in my house, in my car or by my kids (they aren't allowed outside when we are smoking, one of the reasons it's so hard to quit I think)

I think most smokers are considerate of non-smokers. And the ones that aren't are going to remain inconsiderate regardless of whether they smoke or not. And there will always be complaints about those people, if it's not smoking it'll be cussing or showing strangers their innappropriately placed tattoo, or bumping into you in the street, not covering their mouth when they cough.... the list goes on

Where are my fellow cigar smokers... uggh god... CRA

Right here.

All my fellow bikers are also Cigar Smokers. In addition to impromptu gatherings, biker events and BBQ's, we meet up once a month at my home for Cigar Night. In the backyard. Away from the public. Every person there was invited. If someone shows up uninvited, they should bring cigars and Single Barrel Bourbon or don't come by. To paraphrase "You can take my cigar when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.

The way I see it...

You have the right to smoke, but I have the right to not have to smoke. And when someone lights up next too me...my choice has been taken away. And the healthiest option has to win out.

Should I have to walk through a cloud of toxic, cancer causing second hand smoke and breath it in.? I don't know, how do you feel about you flying an airplane over a busy street and spraying everyone down there with aldicarb, or some other toxic pesticide?

There is no difference.

Smoke if you want to. Kill yourself if you want to. Just do it in private where I do not have to breath in the poisons.

I cannot believe that this is even a serious question.

I don't think there's anything proving secondhand smoke when you're in the great outdoors. Inside, I fully understand. But just because you can smell secondhand smoke doesn't mean you're getting the things that give smokers cancer. Just because you can smell my fart doesn't mean it's invaded your lungs, just your olfactory senses.

It's called science. If you can smell it, it's because there is particulate matter in the inhale that is triggering your senses.